Multi-Sectoral Community Development

Details: Written by Wise Editor; Category: Wisehub 2019 Accountability Tracks; Published: 04 November 2018; Hits: 7253

Without skipping a beat, the Area-Based Management unit at the eThekwini Municipality invited leaders to two customized need-based sessions, called WiseCities MasterClasses, to take its own AccountabilityWorks-step.

Results:

Over Twenty (20) schools responded and engaged around their own accountability for school leadership that leads to inovative solutions for the dire needs.
A full report of the event is constructed to serve as an immediate milestone.

Accountable

We have been honoured to journey these last five years with men and women, children and youth, parents and government whose dreams and needs pushed us to think deeply and sincerely about what it means to uplift. During many moments on this journey we arrogantly thought of ourselves as the ones who are to build bridges only to discover that we missed seeing the bridges people already built.

The three pulsating days in Durban from 19-21 October, 2018 were crowning moments of that journey and, like every Wisehub before, we vowed and strategized to make tangible plans to return with evidence that we take learning seriously, that our promises in the company of like-minded pioneers matter and that our children and young people deserve our best. Of all the questions asked over those three days, the single one that prompted thoughtful contemplation now determined our immediate future with serious commitment: